{"product_id":"calthrope-charles","title":"CALTHROPE, Charles.","description":"\u003cp\u003eImportant legal work by the English Crown official and judge Sir Charles Calthrope, or Calthorpe (c.\u003cbr\u003e\n1540-1616). Calthrope entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1560 and was called to the bar in 1569. He was an\u003cbr\u003e\nMP for Eye in 1572, and was later appointed Attorney General for Ireland as an ally of Sir John\u003cbr\u003e\nPerrot, the Lord Deputy. Calthrope’s position as Attorney General was met with considerable\u003cbr\u003e\ncriticism and resistance due to his alleged partisanship, inefficiency, minimal legal knowledge and a\u003cbr\u003e\nlack of deference to his Irish contemporaries. Despite this, Crawford has suggested that he may not\u003cbr\u003e\nhave been as terrible as he is portrayed in contemporary accounts; their criticism may have been\u003cbr\u003e\nbecause of his English identity and opposing political beliefs to the Irish members of the court\u003cbr\u003e\n(Crawford, Jon. A Star Chamber Court for Ireland – the Court of Castle Chamber 1571-1641, 2006).\u003cbr\u003e\nIndeed, on the title page of the present volume Calthrope is proclaimed as “the late Excellent and\u003cbr\u003e\nFamous lawyer Char. Calthrope of the Honorable Society of Lincolnes-Inne Esq.”, though this\u003cbr\u003e\nassertion may have some bias.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis work discusses various issues relating to land tenure, including the reasons a ‘coppy-holder’\u003cbr\u003e\nmay forfeit his estate, and which Lord can grant a coppy, and to whom. A ‘coppy-holder’ refers to the\u003cbr\u003e\ntenant of the bestowed estate. The text is based on his reading at Furnivall’s Inn in 1574. The book is\u003cbr\u003e\nbased on a series of grounds: the first, that there must be a manor for the maintenance of copyhold,\u003cbr\u003e\nthe second, “a custome for allowing the same”, the third there must be a court held for the proof of\u003cbr\u003e\nthe coppy-holders, the fourth that there must be a Lord to bestow the copyhold upon the tenant, the\u003cbr\u003e\nfifth that there must be a tenant with the capacity to take the tenement, and the sixth that “the thing to\u003cbr\u003e\nbe granted which must bee such as is grantable, and may bee helde of the Lord according unto the\u003cbr\u003e\nTenure”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication is one of only six law books known to have been officially licensed from 1581-1640\u003cbr\u003e\ndue to the limited legal licensing system in place for the printing of legal texts during this period. On\u003cbr\u003e\ntop of this, this work was also printed “in contravention of the common law patent.” (Williams, Ian. Law,\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage and the Printing Press in the Reign of Charles I: Explaining the Printing of the Common Law in English, 2019.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CALTHROPE, Charles.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859632300367,"sku":"L3637","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/1-3_41604d05-bf5d-4552-bd88-5d4ad37d96af.jpg?v=1781793792","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/calthrope-charles","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}